I grew up Catholic, def not practicing anymore which is another story for another day.…
Anyway, I still like to use the “what would Jesus do?“ as a basic guiding principle.
Supposedly Jesus was this unconditionally all-loving, forgiving, supportive dude who worked with sinners/people who needed help and could perform cool miracles. He was kind and accepting, not judging others or smiting them to hell. He rolled with everybody.
When I was 15, I had a dream that Jesus invited me to par-take in some cannabis with a group of folks and he was just super chill, nice, and welcoming. Random, but that’s how I like to imagine him.
It makes me sad how most organized Christianity religions use fear instead of love and kindness to spread their message.
Also, side note, anyone else think it’s weird that they made white Jesus so good looking? Are we supposed to be attracted to him as a tactic to enroll?
Mar 23, 2025
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i hope this doesn’t sound like a white boi ego death moment lmaooo, but i was raised in a christian elementary school and as a closeted queer. was taught love, forgiveness, kindness, but NEVER empathy. and i began to believe that basically all virtues are useless/performative without real empathy. 2020 i started reading theory and radical stuff and realized my church was just a business with a cross for a brand. started protesting in Portland and realizing that my abstract understanding of who Jesus is, is more alive in the people (who most likely wouldnt identify as christian) throwing molotov cocktails at pig precincts than in any single person, pastor or family member i’d ever met in my 17 years of institutional christianity. now i’m a buddhist, taoist, Qur’an reading, christian agnostic (because why tf not, yolo, i make my own rules) and life is so beautiful. Fred Hampton is my Jesus Christ and the communist manifesto is my bible.
May 1, 2024
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I say this as a secular raised Jew. But if you’re trying to consciously seek a good model for forgiveness in your heart, Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the best teacher. Probably give the New Testament a good, dedicated reading.
Mar 8, 2025
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With all the quick motions and shocking happenings of the world, I've been taking refuge in the faith I was raised with. Not with a reactionary frame of mind, but searching for the empathetic section of the world I knew when I was younger. Before, I learned about the expansive evils of the world and the contradictory nature of mainstream Christianity and, in extension, Catholicism. I've left the church, but I still visit from time to time, mentally. The teachings of love and justice have given me solace in these trying times. As some rights are being stripped and opportunities limited, my first reaction has been to pray for the people affected. Sympathy is hardwired in my bones, but it's new that I physically get on my knees to recite and conjure a prayer. I've been told I'm having a "come to God" moment, but honestly, I feel I'm falling in love with an idealistic version of Catholicism. Something I can defer to when the logical and the skeptical sections of my mind are overworked with anguish. I feel it couldn't only be me feeling these emotions.
Anyone else?
Jan 28, 2025
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Everyone stfu people are yelling outside, I need to hear what they’re saying!!
Mar 21, 2025
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I’m usually like 3-10 mins late to everything so I’m relieved when someone else is running late, too. Punctual people stress me out in a casual setting!!
Mar 25, 2025
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My friend Pia and I were looking for another roomie bc the other girl bailed. Pia got the word out to some people in the burbs, he (future lover) happened to be there and said he was down to move in. Out of desperation from searching, I didn’t care who lived with us as long as they paid rent.
We met the day we moved in and became super close friends, it was always respectful, platonic, best-buds type shit. We lived together for 2 years, Pia moved out after year 1. He ended up moving to CO after a life altering change.
The day he left was when I realized he was the perfect ”one” for me. I legit cried for weeks straight and we texted non stop every day. He came back a month later and said he really came back for me <3 8 years later, we’re still together and getting married on our 10 year roomie anniversary in October! Sometimes they’re right under your nose, or in this case, under the same roof ;)
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